gke-basics

gke-basics is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from techequitycloud/rad-modules. It costs 145 tokens per session (1,206 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of gke-basics, MPL-2.0.

A guide for planning, creating, and configuring GKE clusters. GKE is Google's managed Kubernetes service for running containerized applications, and Autopilot is its managed operating mode.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create GKE clusters, choose Autopilot or Standard, configure private networking and Gateway API, set up workload identity and access controls, and plan observability.
Why use it?
It provides project defaults and checklists for cluster setup, networking, security, and operations instead of leaving those decisions undocumented.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/techequitycloud/rad-modules/gke-basics
Any agent
npx skills add techequitycloud/rad-modules --skill gke-basics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/techequitycloud/rad-modules

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 145 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,206 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00145 $0.01206
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.00603
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00241
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00121

Measured 3d ago against content hash dce1ef971031, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gke-basics scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to gke-basics — 6 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agent/skills/gke-basics/SKILL.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Basics

GKE is a managed Kubernetes platform on Google Cloud for deploying, scaling, and operating containerized applications. This skill defaults to the golden path Autopilot configuration — see gke-golden-path.md for defaults, rules, and guardrails.

Quick Start

gcloud services enable container.googleapis.com
gcloud container clusters create-auto my-cluster --region=us-central1
gcloud container clusters get-credentials my-cluster --region=us-central1
kubectl create deployment hello-server \
  --image=us-docker.pkg.dev/google-samples/containers/gke/hello-app:1.0

Reference Directory

Load the relevant reference based on trigger keywords. Prefer the most specific match; if ambiguous, ask the user to clarify.

Scenario Trigger Keywords Reference
Core Concepts Autopilot vs Standard, architecture, pricing, what is GKE core-concepts.md
Golden Path & Defaults golden path, Day-0 checklist, production defaults, cluster defaults gke-golden-path.md
Cluster Creation create cluster, new cluster, provision GKE gke-cluster-creation.md
Networking private cluster, VPC, subnet, Gateway API, DNS, ingress, egress, datapath gke-networking.md
Security & IAM Workload Identity, Secret Manager, RBAC, Binary Auth, hardening, audit, gVisor, IAM roles gke-security.md
Scaling HPA, VPA, autoscaler, autoscaling, NAP, scale pods, scale nodes gke-scaling.md
Compute Classes ComputeClass, machine family, Spot fallback, GPU node pool, node selection gke-compute-classes.md
Cost cost, savings, Spot VMs, rightsizing, CUD, optimize spend, budget gke-cost.md
AI/ML Inference inference, model serving, LLM, GPU, TPU, GIQ, vLLM gke-inference.md
Upgrades upgrade, maintenance window, release channel, patching, version gke-upgrades.md
Observability monitoring, logging, Prometheus, Grafana, metrics, alerts, dashboards gke-observability.md
Multi-tenancy multi-tenant, namespace isolation, team access, enterprise, RBAC planning gke-multitenancy.md
Batch & HPC batch, HPC, job queue, high performance, MPI, parallel gke-batch-hpc.md
App Onboarding containerize, deploy app, Dockerfile, onboard, migrate to GKE gke-app-onboarding.md
Backup & DR backup, restore, disaster recovery, CMEK gke-backup-dr.md
Storage storage, PVC, persistent volume, StorageClass, Filestore, GCS FUSE gke-storage.md
Reliability PDB, health probe, liveness, readiness, topology spread, graceful shutdown gke-reliability.md
Client Libraries client library, client-go, kubernetes python, kubernetes java, kubernetes SDK client-library-usage.md
Infrastructure as Code Terraform, IaC, HCL, infrastructure as code iac-usage.md
MCP Server MCP tools, MCP server, MCP setup mcp-usage.md
CLI / Tools gcloud, kubectl, commands, how to cli-reference.md
Production Audit production readiness, compliance, golden path check gke-cluster-creation.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 54 lines · 145 tokens per session scan A dce1ef971031

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gke-basics is a skill published in the GitHub repository techequitycloud/rad-modules (2 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MPL-2.0. It adds 145 tokens to every session and 1,206 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to gke-basics, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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